Packed with new examples and material, this second edition providesa fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demiseof moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which theytake place.
* Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism,the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flagburning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sexslave" scare
* Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as amajor component of the moral panic
* Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first editionas well as the moral panics concept itself
* Written by long-established experts in the field
* Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics andwider courses on deviance